Rory McIlroy “doesn’t understand” the anger towards golf ball rollback.
A new report has suggested rollback could affect all golfers as opposed to just elite male players which was the USGA and R&A’s first suggestion.
The Northern Irishman wrote on Twitter/X that possible universal changes “will make no difference whatsoever to the average golfer.”
Some PGA Tour players have slammed plans that could significantly shave yards off the tee that have rocketed so much in recent years, but McIlroy has the opposite view.
“I don’t understand the anger about the golf ball rollback. It will make no difference whatsoever to the average golfer and puts golf back on a path of sustainability,” he wrote.
“It will also help bring back certain skills in the pro game that have been eradicated over the past two decades.
“The people who are upset about this decision shouldn’t be mad at the governing bodies, they should be mad at elite pros and club/ball manufacturers because they didn’t want bifurcation.
“The governing bodies presented us with that option earlier this year. Elite pros and ball manufacturers think bifurcation would negatively affect their bottom lines, when in reality, the game is already bifurcated.
“You think we play the same stuff you do? They put pressure on the governing bodies to roll it back to a lesser degree for everyone.
“Bifurcation was the logical answer for everyone, but yet again in this game, money talks.”
The R&A and the USGA are determined not to do nothing, in the words of the R&A’s chief executive Martin Slumbers, which means either to bifurcate or to change the entire game.
McIlroy expressed support for bifurcation when the governing bodies for a new Model Local Rule in March
